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by jaxn 23 days ago
my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.
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I'd walk with my CRT monitor and tower (stuffed all cables, mouse, keyboard inside) over to my friend's to play games/mess with computers a couple decades ago. We called it the "sneakernet", too.
A simpler time, with South Park on RralPlayer. And before with Leisure Suit Larry.
And if you use your cellphone as a USB mass storage device, it still is!
it’s the wifi hotspot name.